[In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

I know I have posted a few of these lately, but I have some time to work on an app, and I am trying to gauge interest before I start developing (I don't want to waste my time developing an app that no one will use).

I have seen a few people post about being interested in subsonic (a music / video streaming program that you host on your server). It looks like it has a pretty solid api, so I am think about developing a player for maemo.

My only concern is that they require a donation (minimum of 10 euros) to continue using the software after 30 days, which feels a bit weird for an open source application... How do people feel about this, and how many people would be interested in using this.

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

Well you can always edit the server's code a little and build it again :) I'm personally more interested in MPD.

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

I have had subsonic over 30 days and it doesn't require any donation. Any links to page that states this?

I hope that you have noticed that there actually is request for this kind of app on meego/maemo coding contest page :)

But still when doing open source you should first think yourself and do what you want! Do stuff that you want to use and enjoy.

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

Now I noticed. So to stream from this server trought API you need premium server? Streaming to web browser doesn't have this restriction?

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/apps.jsp

Correct. Use of the api (which is what I would use) requires purchase of a license.

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

Do you need to get the license or anybody who wants to use the app? If it's you, I'll donate it for you ;)

Yes, I'm interested in this, as somebody is porting/packaging subsonic for QNAP NAS, so the combination would be awesome :)

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

I just found this:
http://my-tech-notes.blogspot.com/20...m-license.html

it turns out the license is just the md5sum of a valid e-mail address.... way to go subsonic...

Anyway, I'd donate anyway if it is good, I just hate it when they turn your arm to do so...

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

Hmm... Interesting.

I think I am going to try to write a basic music player for this, and based on interest decide how much to improve it. I could probably make a amazon cloud player client pretty easily too once I have the basic program done.

Anyone good at making qml interfaces, and want to team up?

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

I now have subsonic running, if there's anything to test just let me know :)

Re: [In Development?] Subsonic Player
 

I see that a subsonic client is on the proposals page for the coding competition (http://wiki.maemo.org/MeeGo_Coding_C...ation_proposal), maybe not too late to join? :)